Only thing is it requires spending money that WDFW cannot afford to spend nor can our state for that matter. Especially if that money is going to creating another "blue creek type" terminal fishery. If they want to increase opportunity on the Skagit spend the money restoring some spawning tribs. There is more than enough opportunity for hatchery steelhead fishing in puget sound and on the Skagit. Wild fish are a permanent solution.

Also your now dumping 500,000 smolts into the river creating worse problems for wild juveniles and creating more competition for all the wild fish in the system including threatened chinook.

I am completely opposed to spending any more money anywhere in the state on hatchery programs period!